FAMOUS GENERALS' AGES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 150, 25 February 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

FAMOUS GENERALS' AGES.

So far as the generals on either side are concerned, the present war is being waged by men who, in regard to the ordinary affairs of life, would be considered to be "ell i ast iliei" prime The German von dor (Joltz, !o r example, who was holding our armies in check 111 the Gallipoli Peninsula, is seventy-two; and he had opposed to him S : r lan Hamilton, who is eixtytwo.

General Hindenburg and Mackensen are sixty-eight and sixty-six lespectively. Sir John French is s xty-three, the same age as General Joffrc. \on Kluck, who drove them and their armies before him almost to within sight of Paris in the early days of war, will soon be celebrating his seventieth birthday. General von Haeseler, who :s now serving in the field, is eighty-one. Count Zeppelin, whom rumour credits with having personally directed one of the most sensational of the recent air raids, is seventy-seven. General Pan. the French one-armed hero and J off re V right-hand man, is sxty-.seven. Sir William Robertson, the British Cliiet of Staff, is sixty-live, the same age as General von Falkenhayn, who holds a corresponding position in the German armies. General Focli. the Frenchman who broke the Germans at the .Manic, i s sixty-four. King Peter of Serbia, who personally took the field at the head of Ins army d rcctly war broke out, had turned scventv when he defeated the in the Battle of Ridges in December last and drove them headlong from his country. Amongst those responsible for the conduct of the war at sea. Admiral Lord ".lacky" Fisher is seventy-loin;; Sir Arthur Wilson is sixty-three; Sir Henry -lackson, our new J'irst Sea Lord,' is turned sixty: while Grand Admiral von Tirpitz. the man whose policy is responsible for the " Lusitania crime and the baby-killing raids on Scarborough and elsewhere, is sixty-six.